Nursing Home Employee Gets Off With Handslap After Copping Plea To Ripping Off 90+ Year Old Couple With Dementia

In Lowestoft, Suffolk (UK), The Lowestoft Journal reports:

• A former worker at a Lowestoft sheltered housing complex has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting stealing money from an elderly couple with dementia. Lowestoft magistrates court heard [] that the manager at Levington Court in London Road South, Lowestoft, worked with police to set up video surveillance after a report of cash being taken from one of the bedrooms at the centre, which provides sheltered and very sheltered accommodation. Stephen Nelson, of Northgate in Lowestoft, was later identified from video footage and admitted two offences of theft totalling £100.

• Mitzy Bond, prosecuting, said that the serial numbers of notes belonging to the victims, who were both in their 90s, were recorded so that they could be traced. She said that when Nelson's home address was searched by police earlier this month after he was identified on the video footage, a £20 note stolen from the victim's wallet was found. He also admitted stealing another £80 from the couple on an earlier occasion.

For the story, see Lowestoft care worker stole from couple with dementia.